Display device for flags.



R. R. PULLEN. DISPLAY DEVICE FOR FLAGS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10 19H.

mfiwssa i Patented June 4, 1918.

MYMOND E. PULLEN, 0F OCEANIQ'NEW JERSEY.

IDI$PLAY DEVICE FOR FLAGS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAYMOND R. PULLEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oceanic, Monmouth county, State of New Jersey, have inventednew and useful limprovements in Display Devices for Flags, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The display device of this invention is particularly adapted to hold anddisplay flags. It is a light metal structure provided with a clamp forfastening it to any suitable support or the front part of an automobile,as for instance the filling cup of the radiator. It also includes meansfor holding a vertical rotatable shaft carrying an attractive object orobjects, preferably flags. To 1 insure auto-rotary action of the flagsand shaft the flags extend in opposite directions from the shaft. Theflags are made of a stifl or rigid material, which may be sheet metal,and are so curved or bent as to ofler resistance to air currents at oneside of the shaft and to spill the air at the other side of the shaft.The device also comprises laterally extending branches or arms, the endsof which are provided with means for holding the staffs of other flags,preferably in inclined positions. These flag holding means consists ofbends at the ends arms having a certain amount of resiliency andsuitably perforated to the staffs of the flags, placed throu h theperforations. The perforations or ho es are so located that when thebends are compressed the holes will aline for the free admission of thesta'fls, and the holes will firmly grip the stafl's by the resiliency ofthe bends when the same are released, and so securely hold the flags inset positions.

All parts of the display device may be integral, suitably shaped by aunching process, the various parts bemg ormed or bent.

into shape to properly perform the desired functions. Or the parts maybe made separately and then connected together to constitute a completedisplay device.

The accompanying drawings illustrate an embodiment of the mvention.

Figure 1, is a face view of the device comlete. V p Fig. 2, a plan viewof the same.

Fig. 3, a vertical central section; and Fig. 4, shows a blank, in thefiat, adapted to be formed into shape, as shownin the 1 other views. I

Fig 4; shows a. properly shaped blank specification of Letters Patent.

of the lateral act as clamps for Patented June a, 19318.

Application filled July 10, 1917. Serial Bio. 179,707.

from. which the device may be made. It comprises two lateral extensions5, 5, each having a puncture or hole 6, 6, at its end; two lateral bars7, 7, adjacent the extensions 5, 5, and each having two holes 8, 8, atits end, an extension 9 at right angles to 5 and 7, and punctured by ahole 10, at its end. The extension 9, has also a hole 11, mediate itsends and a tongue 12, slit from its end adjacent the bars 7, 7. It maybeexpedient from a manufacturers view-point to build the device up fromseparate pieces; in such case the parts 5, 5, and 9, may be securedtogether by rivets, as indicated by dotted circles .13, 13, and the bars7, secured to the part 9, as indicated by the dotted circles 14, 14.Inother views the parts 7, and 9, connecting' rivets 14, 14, are shownin full, the parts 5, 5, and 9, being integral.

The clamp feature of the device is made from the parts 5, 5, bent so asto embrace any suitable support and securely held thereon by a screwbolt 15, passed through the holes 8, 8, so as to draw the ends of theclamp together. It is shown in Figs. 1 and 8 embracing the filling cup16, of the radiathe bearings 10 and 11. Y This shaft 19, may

carry any auto-rotary objects; represented as double flag 20, which isprinted, or otherwise impressed or marked on both sides of a sheet of asuitable rigid material that will maintain curvatures formed at itsedges, such as shown in the lan view Fig. 2. The convex sides of the oject. 20, ofi'er less re- ,tor of an automobile. The means forholdsistance than the concave sides to currents of air when the deviceis stationar and when it is carried on a moving Vehic e. A single flagmaybe applied to each side of the object.

The bends formed at the ends of the.

branches or bars 7,7, as'shown in Fig. 1 are resilient and the holes8,8, are'located in the bends in such manner that when the bends aresomewhat: closed by pressure applied to their ends 21, the holeswillaline to afl'orda free passage for the insertion of a stick or rodof a display object therein. The resiliency of the bends will, whentheir ends are released, cause the stick or rod to be securely grippedby the edges. of the holes. Small flags 22, 23, areshown as the objectscarried at the ends of the bars 7 7, their stafis 24, being of a size tobe adequately held in the holes 8, 8, of the resilient bends.

I claim:

1. A display device, comprising a clamp for securing the device to asupport in operative position, an extension having holes adapted to actas bearings for the vertical shaft of a rotatable object and a tongueout from the base of the extension and formed to act as a step bearingfor the vertical shaft and lateral branches or bars eac'h provided atits end with means for holding the stafi' of a flag.

2. A display device, comprising a clamp for securing the device to asupport in operative posi-tlon, means centrally located on the devicefor holding a rotatable object having a vertical shaft and lateralbranches or bars each having at its end a resilient bend provided withholes adapted to grip and firmly hold the stafi' of a flag by theresiliency of the bend.

4;. A display device, composed of sheet I metal having side piecesadapted to be formed into a clamp for securing the device to a support,a central extension having holes formed therein and a tongue piece cuttherefrom and bent to bring the holes and the end of the tongue inalinement, and lateral branches having their ends bent with two holes ineach bend angularly arranged.

Signed at New York, county and State of New York, this 9th day of July,1917.

RAYMOND R. PULLEN.

In the presence of LATHAM D. PEARSALL, WM. J. DOLAN.

